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Showing videos filed under: cpac
Sarah Posner: Conflicts and Questions at CPAC
February 15, 2011The Conservative Political Action Conference is a good place, says Sarah Posner, to "put your finger on the pulse of the conservative movement" in the US. From straw polls for president--Congressman Ron Paul won that one--to tiffs over gay conservatives and Islamophobia, this past weekend at CPAC saw a lot of action, and Sarah was there to report, for Religion Dispatches and The Nation.Nawal El Saadawi, Helen Thomas, Sarah Posner and Innovation
February 14, 2011"I feel reborn," says Egyptian feminist author and activist Nawal El Saadawi. "I am 80, but I feel young, I feel all my energy coming back, I feel my childhood dream coming back."Sarah Posner: Civil Rights For Fetuses at CPAC
February 23, 2010At last week’s Conservative Political Action Conference, the tea party ruled. “Saving freedom” was the theme of the conference, and the tea party mojo -- screeds against imagined socialist policies and the supposed tyranny of liberalism -- effortlessly overran old school small government conservatism to solidify the tea party’s position as the movement’s reigning force.Food Stamps, Imran Malik and CPAC
February 22, 2010In a recent article for ColorLines, Seth Wessler reported on one woman's struggle to support her family when cash benefits from the Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) program--the one that replaced welfare under Bill Clinton's 1996 welfare reform--run out. "Selling Food Stamps For Kids' Shoes" was the title of the article, and it creates a stark picture of the impossible choices more and more families are forced to make in the continuing recession.
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